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LOCATION: Hyatt Regency Long Beach200 S Pine AvenueLong Beach, CA 90802 December 4 is National Sock Day! Did you know socks are one of the most requested, but least donated items at shelters? Please bring a pair (or more) of new socks to the symposium, and we will donate them to a local charity for ...
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CHA has received a response to its Sept. 15 letter seeking various forms of regulatory and financial relief to combat California’s persistent and growing health care workforce crisis.
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Action needed:
WRITE and CALL your assemblymember, asking them to support Senate Bill (SB) 758 (Portantino, D-La Cañada Flintridge) related to the 2030 seismic mandate and oppose SB 977 (Monning, D-Carmel) giving the Attorney General unprecedented oversight over hospital transactions. CHA has developed template letters and background documents about both bills for your use (see below). Please send your letter to Dawn Vicari at dvicari@calhospital.org.
Timing:
Call your assemblymember and send your letter by August 24. Contact information for California assemblymembers is here.
Background and Core Messaging for Both Bills:
When COVID-19 hit, hospitals and health systems throughout the state responded quickly — converting physical space, suspending many procedures and services, purchasing personal protective equipment for employees and staff, hiring additional staff, and more. The fight against COVID-19 continues today. This unprecedented response has come at a high cost for all of California’s hospitals. A national, independent consulting firm with extensive health care finance expertise has found that the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to lead to long-term changes to financial stability and care delivery for California hospitals. Lawmakers must recognize that:
California’s communities have benefitted from health care systems during this public health crisis. As they do in many types of emergencies, they have leveraged economies of scale to ensure key supply (PPE, medical equipment) and staffing needs are met throughout the state — wherever they are most needed — and all communities have a hospital to turn to.
Hospitals’ scarce resources should now be focused on preparedness and key services, not long-term infrastructure requirements like the 2030 seismic safety mandate or limitations on access-increasing and cost-lowering partnerships among health care providers.
COVID-19 has taught invaluable lessons about the need for a strategic, holistic, and efficient approach to disaster readiness and the strength of the health care system – an approach that must be based on flexibility and interconnectedness, not one-off measures that fail to consider unintended consequences.
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The GE Healthcare production facility for iodinated contrast media in Shanghai experienced an unexpected, temporary shutdown that has created temporary supply pressure for radiographic contrast medium used before X-ray imaging.
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While there is cause for some optimism related to the COVID-19 crisis — vaccines have been approved for children 5-11 and the summer surge is finally behind us — it remains a daily struggle for many of California’s hospitals to make sure they have the resources needed to deliver the care their patients deserve.
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SACRAMENTO (April 19, 2022) — Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, California hospitals continue to face massive financial losses, with the 2021 shortfall triple initial projections, according to a new report by Kaufman Hall, a nationally respected consulting firm with extensive health care expertise. These losses mean that for the first time in recent history, more than half of California’s hospitals are now operating in the red — losing money on the patients they care for.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued revised guidance on emergency preparedness exercise requirements to provide additional clarification due to the continuing COVID-19 public health emergency.
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Location: Riverside Convention Center, Lower Concourse Ballroom3637 5th StreetRiverside, CA 92501
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This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date.Did you see the Symposium is in Sacramento this year? Bringing California’s hospital leaders, policymakers, and experts on behavioral health together, the symposium will dive into the public policies, politics, and financial issues shaping behavioral health care in our state. Share the […]
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On Jan. 10, the governor released his 2022-23 state budget proposal — a $286.4 billion budget plan that provides funding for immediate COVID-19 response and relief efforts for many Californians impacted by the pandemic.
